TextFieldParser.Delimiters Property

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO

Assembly:

Microsoft.VisualBasic.Core.dll

Source:

TextFieldParser.vb

Defines the delimiters for a text file.

public:
 property cli::array <System::String ^> ^ Delimiters { cli::array <System::String ^> ^ get(); void set(cli::array <System::String ^> ^ value); };

public string[]? Delimiters { get; set; }

member this.Delimiters : string[] with get, set

Public Property Delimiters As String()

Property Value

String[]

A string array that contains all of the field delimiters for the TextFieldParser object.

Exceptions

ArgumentException

A delimiter value is set to a newline character, an empty string, or Nothing.

Examples

This example specifies that the delimiter for the TextFieldParser object, FileReader, is a comma (,).

FileReader.TextFieldType = Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.FieldType.Delimited
FileReader.Delimiters = New String() {","}

Remarks

This property is meaningful only if the TextFieldType property is set to FieldType.Delimited.

Defining the delimiters for a text file can also be accomplished with the SetDelimiters method.

The following table lists an example of a task involving the Delimiters property.

To	See
Read from a delimited text file	How to: Read From Comma-Delimited Text Files

See also

• OpenTextFieldParser(String)
• SetDelimiters(String[])
• Objects (Visual Basic)
• Parsing Text Files with the TextFieldParser Object